The Blueprint 3
More Blueprint 2 than Blueprint, Jay-Z's latest is actually closer to Kingdom Come than either of those others. Unfortunately.
As transparently phony attempts to look edgy and dangerous by wealthy middle-aged men go, Jay-Z’s “D.O.A (Death Of Auto-Tune)” ranks somewhere between a graying ponytail and a tiny diamond earring. The hilariously unconvincing bid to regain his street credibility by pretending he’s a taboo-shattering rebel and…
Read the review of New York rapper Jay-Z's addition to the Blueprint series 'The Blueprint III' featuring hit track 'Empire State of Mind'.
“What more can I say?” asked Jay-Z in 2003, on his vaunted “retirement”record, The Black Album.
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The album is filled to the brim with elite production and rapping, but it lacks the hungriness, spirit, and craziness of a classic.
<p>Jay-Z cooks up a CD with fantastic potential – then makes a dog's dinner of it</p>
Jay-Z isn’t a businessman — he’s a business, man. And when you’ve branded your image to the point where you’re simultaneously managing a clothing line, sports club and record label, it’s fair to say the Hova has landed. The new quandary becomes maintaining your self-proclaimed street cred whilst juggling decidedly non-street multi-million-dollar finances — something